Journalism could pay, Brill says
Yale Journalism Initiative founder Steven Brill ’72 LAW ’75 laid out his plan to make journalism profitable again at a Law School panel Thursday, just a short distance from where he first came up with the idea.
Before an audience of 18, Brill made the case for his new company, Journalism Online, which will charge customers to use online content generated by media companies across a common platform. The idea for the company, which Brill and his partners unveiled earlier this week, was the brainchild of a conversation from his “Journalism” seminar at Yale, Brill said in an interview...
Brill doesn't seem to understand the internet.
I wish Steven Brill the best of luck in his new Internet journalism venture, but I doubt that he will have many subscribers, because Internet readers will be charged a fee for using this service. I believe that there are just too many free Internet sites available -- on any subject one can imagine -- and almost all of them are free!
maybe people should go into professions they love DESPITE low pay. If you love digging ditches, that's cool too. But don't expect to make money doing it.
"Access to Knowledge?" A step backward, Sir Brill. What does the A2K foundation have to say?
Aggregation and micropayments. Good luck with all that.